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Re: vt100 fonts (box characters) and terminal emulation
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Roland Glenn McIntosh <roland at steeltorch dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 13:18:09 -0500
- Subject: Re: vt100 fonts (box characters) and terminal emulation
- References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011220114800.05cdd2d8@lnxmain>
Roland Glenn McIntosh wrote:
> In short:
> What is the path of least resistance to improve the terminal emulation and character display in my cygwin shell window or rxvt?
In console, add 'codepage:oem' to your CYGWIN variable.
In rxvt, use a font that actually contains the box chars -- try "LuconP"
from here:
http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/
For Xserver fonts, try these:
http://shelluser.net/~giles/bashprompt/xfonts/index.html
--Chuck
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